Education: Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Architecture
Hi! I’m an ARB-registered architect with over four years of professional experience in large-scale residential and cultural projects. I have a passion for sustainable design and significant experience in early design development, the planning approvals process, and construction management. I am proficient at Revit, AutoCAD and Vectorworks, amongst other programmes.
University College Student Accommodation
Client: University College, Oxford, U.K.
Construction Budget: £44m
RIBA stages worked: Stage 4 to Partial Completion Programs used: Vectorworks, Rhino, Enscape
In 2017, University College of Oxford University launched a competition for a new collegiate development in the North Oxford Victorian Suburbs. The winning scheme was to provide for 150 new student bedrooms and would represent the largest addition to the College in over three centuries. The brief called for new accommodation for undergraduates and postgraduates, along with a children’s nursery. In addition, the site was to house a student café, a gym, ancillary study rooms, and a multi-purpose common space for College events.
Since winning the competition, Niall McLaughlin Architects has seen the project through from the initial briefing stages to construction, and lobbied for the buildings to be constructed with CLT.
House of Leiden
Client: Vogelgezang Foundation, the Netherlands
RIBA Stages worked: Stage 2 to Planning Submission Programs used: Revit, Rhino
The House of Leiden will be home to a unique private collection of medieval religious art primarily from the Low Countries. The architectural design is being carried out by three offices - Níall McLaughlin Architects, Bierman Henket and Selldorf Architects. Through collaboration involving fortnightly design workshops and regular information sharing, the architect teams are working together to develop a cohesive set of proposals for the site and to ensure the designs of each office complement one another.
Niall McLaughlin Architects are responsible for the new-build portions of the scheme - a series of interventions that are a modern interpretation of quintessential Dutch gabled façades. These interventions include a refectory, gallery, library, as well as a small chapel. The project was submitted to the Dutch planning authorities on 24.02.2025 and is awaiting approval.
Portfolio
Portfolio
Master’s Thesis
University: University of Strathclyde
Programs used: Autocad, Rhino, Lumion
In our final year at University, we were tasked with finding an “urgency” in the world and addressing it through design. My manifesto was as follows:
We are on the verge of a Big Data Revolution: all facets of society are beginning to be shaped by data mining and behaviour products - constant mass surveillance, in the form of online tracking, is dangerously close to becoming the ‘new normal.’ At its core, the commoditization of data has created a fundamental asymmetry in power between institutions and individuals: this project seeks to challenge the current data monopoly and to explore what it would mean to give people power over their own data. Envisioned through the actions of a future grass-roots movement, called the Cloud Cooperative, the project explores the phased decentralization of data infrastructure and the creation of a secure, ethical new internet.
The Cloud Cooperative also responds to the significant environmental impact of the exponentially growing data industry. Based on real technologies, such as deep-water server farms and 5D optical storage, the Cloud Cooperative proposes a three-phase process to achieving carbon neutral data storage. The excess heat produced by traditional hard-disk drives is used to heat nearby homes, server farms are submerged in deep, cold waters for passive cooling, and, in the final stage, data is engraved into near-permanent quartz glass blocks – all of this is powered by a tidal power plant, plugged into a new district heating scheme. The Cloud Cooperative has set out to prove that, if we act now, the internet can become both socially and environmentally sustainable.
Winner of the 2021 RIBA Silver Medal for the best University architecture project in the U.K.
Bachelor’s Thesis
University: University of Strathclyde
Programs used: Autocad, Rhino, Lumion
This fourth year project proposes the construction of a Neighbourhood Sauna complex on the bank of the picturesque River Kelvin, offering a meditative safe space in the heart of Glasgow. Based on the concept of heat schock therapy, the building’s pools and saunas are arranged as a progression from warm pools, to hot saunas, to ice baths.
The design is composed of indoor pools and saunas, a cafe and restaurant, terrace spaces, and outdoor baths sunken into the foundations of the old North Woodside Flint Mill. This culturally important archaeological site has been conscientiously incorporated into the development: lightweight timber walkways hover above its foundations, allowing visitors to dip into shallow outdoor baths carefully excavated in the places of old rooms, and the old flint furnace has been reconstructed to its original appearance and adapted for use as a sauna. Clad in charred Scottish Larch slats and constructed using a hybrid system of cross-laminated timber and glulam timber, the Kamina thermal bath complex blends into the greenery of the riverbank, ensuring that neighbour’s views remain unobstructed. The development’s envelope consists of eight massive timber “canopies” enclosing schedule-specific, smaller rooms - the purposefully massive spaces ensure that the building can later be adapted to a new use.
year 4 8 week project
This fourth year project proposes the construction of a Neighbourhood Sauna complex on the bank of the picturesque River Kelvin, offering a meditative safe space in the heart of Glasgow. Based on the concept of heat schock therapy, the building’s pools and saunas are arranged as a progression from warm pools, to hot saunas, to ice baths. The design is composed of indoor pools and saunas, a cafe and restaurant, terrace spaces, and outdoor baths sunken into the foundations of the old North Woodside Flint Mill. This culturally important archaeological site has been conscientiously incorporated into the development: light-
weight timber walkways hover above its foundations, allowing visitors to dip into shallow outdoor baths carefully excavated in the places of old rooms, and the old flint furnace has been reconstructed to its original appearance and adapted for use as a sauna. Clad in charred Scottish Larch slats and constructed using a hybrid system of cross-laminated timber and glulam timber, the Kamina thermal bath complex blends into the greenery of the riverbank, ensuring that neighbour’s views remain unobstructed. The development’s envelope consists of eight massive timber “canopies” enclosing schedule-specific, smaller rooms - the purposefully massive spaces ensure that the building can later be adapted to a new use.
Misc. Projects
Entry for the “Plastic Monument” competition, with my concept being a polluted man-made wave
Entry for the“Plastic Monument” student competition. Concept: focus on ocean pollution, creating an artificial wave
Personal project: hypothetical CLT family home in the South of Finland
Personal project using Lumion for visuals
Second year university project - co-living for young adults
